Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sir Patrick Mayhew has certainly been dealt a difficult hand — made worse , in Dungannon and other areas west of the Bann , where there was widespread anger over the dismissal of charges against six soldiers in Coalisland . |
| 32 | It is true that Beccaria 's classical programme has never been given a full trial ( the image of his public floggings and toiling chain-gangs rather than his denial of capital punishment may help the liberal-minded to feel this less of a loss ) . |
| 33 | Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period . |
| 34 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 35 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 36 | At any point of the communication process , there will have already been established a certain linguistic and non-linguistic environment . |
| 37 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 38 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 39 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 40 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 41 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 42 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 43 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 44 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 45 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 46 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 47 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 48 | He says they 've already been allowed a judicial review over the ban on deer hunting by Somerset Council and we 've requested one in the case of Hampshire . |
| 49 | Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by |
| 50 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 51 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 52 | For another it was learning French at evening classes when she had always been considered a complete duffer at languages . |
| 53 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 54 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 55 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 56 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 57 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 58 | Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison . |
| 59 | In 1935 , the very same Neville Chamberlain , who ten years earlier had even been considering a contributory earnings-related scheme , could tell the Conservative Party annual conference that better retirement pensions would be prohibitively costly , would release only a paltry number of jobs and would create grave legal and administrative problems in enforcing the retirement condition : ‘ Are you going to create a new penal offence — the offence of doing work ? ’ he asked . |
| 60 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |